Drisht Castle Kalaja e Drishtit
Drisht, Albania
Drishti Castle museum
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Drisht Castle Kalaja e Drishtit
Coordinates	42°07′36″N 19°36′44″E / 42.126724°N 19.612139°E / 42.126724; 19.612139

Drisht Castle (Albanian: Kalaja e Drishtit) is a ruined castle above the modern Albanian village of Drisht, medieval Drivastum, in the municipal unit Postribë, Shkodër County, Albania.

The settlement's origins date back to the Roman city of Drivastum. Drivastum was first mentioned as a bishopric at the end of the 10th century. In 1184 the Serbian ruler Stefan Nemanja conquered the city. After the collapse of the Serbian Empire in the second half of the 14th century, Drisht became an independent city which minted its own coins with the inscription Civitatis Drivasti. Between 1369 and 1396 Drisht was ruled by the Balsha noble family, and then by the Republic of Venice. After the city became part of the Ottoman Empire in 1476, the population moved to Venetian possessions, and the settlement turned into a small village.^[1]

Today there are the remains of 11 houses inside the castle walls.^[2]

• Shala-Peli, Teuta (2014). Drishti në Mesjetë [Drisht in the Middle Ages] (Thesis). Academy of Sciences of Albania-Center of Albanological Studies.

• Ippen, Theodor (1900), "Stari spomenici u Albaniji", Glasnik Zemaljskog muzeja u Bosni i Hercegovini, Zbirka povjesti, vol. 12, Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary: Zemaljska štamparija, pp. 511–531

42°07′25″N 19°36′40″E / 42.1235°N 19.6112°E / 42.1235; 19.6112

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